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Margaret Atwood is one of the most important and influential writers alive today. Her fiction explores and reflects the current cultural…

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Vampires are currently one of the biggest phenomena in popular culture. They are central to hit television series like True Blood, Being…

Writer / directors Joel and Ethan Coen’s latest cerebral masterpiece is a fable on the purpose of morality, and the reasons for…

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A review of Lily Allen's CD It's Not Me It's You.

Why do people do the things they do? It’s a question the world’s greatest philosophers, theologians, scientists and doctors…